Year 3 (Class 9) - English - Book Recommendations

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Today we had our fortnightly library visit.

We talked about the books we had read and whether we would recommend them to others. 

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Year 4 (Class 10) - English - Writing

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It has been lovely watching class 10 to support each other while editing their work. We talked about how we each have different strengths and how we can support each other’s learning.

We then helped each other add expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials to our writing, as well as checking…

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Year 3 (Class 10) - English - Writing

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It has been lovely watching class 10 to support each other while editing their work.

We talked about how we each have different strengths and how we can support each other’s learning. We then helped each other add expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials to our writing, as well as checking…

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Year 6 (Class 17) - English - Author Visit

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Thank you to Daniel Ingram-Brown who came to school and did a spooky, scary workshop with our year 5 and 6 children in preparation for their scary stories.

We had so much fun making up our creatures with you and hearing all about your new books.

Many of us got them signed!

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Year 1 (Class 4) - English - Poetry

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Class 4 have been continuing with their poetry unit.

Today they created their own sound poems.

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Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Library Story Time

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This week class 13 have had their story time in the library with Mr Waters.

The story was about a man that walked between two towers, they discussed a how courageous he was.

The children loved joining in with props and acting out the story.

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Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Word Mats

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Today in English class 13 the children have been creating word mats for their scary story writing.

They have loved ‘stealing’ words and phrases from various scary stories we have read. 

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Year 6 (Class 16) - English - Author Visit

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This week, year 5 and 6 had a great time when the author Daniel Ingram-Brown came and visited.

He spoke to class 16 about scary stories and we began writing our own character and scary story as a class.

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Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Author Visit

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The famous author Daniel Ingham-Brown visited class 13 this week. He has published numerous books such as Bea's Witch.

In the workshop the children became ghost hunters and collaboratively wrote a ghost character description and an island setting description.

The children loved bouncing off…

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Year 1 (Class 4) - English - Poetry

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This week class 4 have been learning about poetry. 

We read the story ‘Sparks in the Sky’ and talked about our experiences of Bonfire Night. 

The children then wrote their own poems about Bonfire Night. 

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Year 2 (Class 6) - English - School Day Sentences

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In English, class 6 have been learning about the features of recounts.

We worked with our partners to write super sentences about our school day.

We will be using our new knowledge to write a recount of our trip to Skipton Castle.

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Year 5 (Class 14) - English - Ghost Stories

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A brilliant workshop in class 14 with the author Daniel.

We created a great ghost story, all about a rapped spirit who was scared and alone. Some great work and participation from all the class.

Well done class 14, I hope it really helps with your writing over the next few weeks as you…

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